Alert archive / Kansas / Flood Watches in 2013
Flood Watch 6, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this flood watch at Aug 11, 2013, 5:31 PM CDT for 26 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Aug 12, 2013, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 45 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 11, 2013, 5:31 PM CDT (22:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 12, 2013, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2013, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Flood severity
- None
All 26 counties
Allen County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flood watch went out at Aug 10, 6:27 PM CDT, 23 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 6:27 PM CDT, 23 hours 4 minutes before
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.